Dr Jane Goodall: More support for alternative testing

Is it still acceptable, given advances in neural imaging and the computer modelling of disease, to conduct medical experiments on primates?

Leading primatologist Dr Jane Goodall has called for "more support from the top" for research into alternatives to animal testing.

Dr Goodall told the Today programme that however much some procedures may benefit people, primates' capacity to feel suffering and pain mean it is time to stop funding some potentially painful or cruel types of experiments.